zigzagger

English

Etymology

zigzag +‎ -er

Noun

zigzagger (plural zigzaggers)

An attachment for a sewing machine allowing for zigzag stitches.
- 1942 The Chemistry leaflet
  Join the pieces with overlapping seams and finish off by stitching with the zigzagger attachment.
- 1954 Kiplinger's Personal Finance
  If a woman had the finest conventional sewing machine with all the attachments ever made, she could not do one tenth of the work that can be done on a modern zigzagger.
Someone who zigzags; a person who makes rapid changes of direction, especially (figuratively) in opinion, policy etc.
- 2005 William Safire - Before the fall: an inside view of the pre-Watergate White House
  That is what has long worried many people about Nixon: they saw him as the political man, the born trimmer, the zigzagger and flipflopper, the constantly moving target
- 2006 John A. Hall, Ralph Schroeder - An anatomy of power: the social theory of Michael Mann
  As a self-avowed 'zigzagger' who works back and forth between historical particularities and sociological categories,
- 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties, Twelve Books:
  In the view of Greenberg and his colleagues, Clinton […] was a zigzagger who tailored his views to suit voters.

单词	zigzagger
释义	zigzagger English Etymology zigzag +‎ -er Noun zigzagger (plural zigzaggers) An attachment for a sewing machine allowing for zigzag stitches. 1942 The Chemistry leaflet Join the pieces with overlapping seams and finish off by stitching with the zigzagger attachment. 1954 Kiplinger's Personal Finance If a woman had the finest conventional sewing machine with all the attachments ever made, she could not do one tenth of the work that can be done on a modern zigzagger. Someone who zigzags; a person who makes rapid changes of direction, especially (figuratively) in opinion, policy etc. 2005 William Safire - Before the fall: an inside view of the pre-Watergate White House That is what has long worried many people about Nixon: they saw him as the political man, the born trimmer, the zigzagger and flipflopper, the constantly moving target 2006 John A. Hall, Ralph Schroeder - An anatomy of power: the social theory of Michael Mann As a self-avowed 'zigzagger' who works back and forth between historical particularities and sociological categories, 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties, Twelve Books: In the view of Greenberg and his colleagues, Clinton […] was a zigzagger who tailored his views to suit voters.
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